Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Members must on no account lead scandalous lives until they are in such a position that the newspapers dare not reveal the facts...
After reading your fascinating Aug. 3 account of the sleepy people, we are frankly puzzled. You report concerning a 20-year-old young man who had "the not surprising habit of falling asleep in church . . ." Indeed, we are surprised. Even our babies don't fall asleep in church. They just...
...domestic serial and book rights. Attorney DeOrsey counseled the astronauts to negotiate separate contracts for television and movie rights, product endorsement and, in DeOrsey's words, "things you couldn't imagine." The "things," added DeOrsey, do not include a bid from a bank to open an astronauts account with the theme: "They might take a risk in space but when it comes to what they do with their money on good old earth . . ." DeOrsey coldly turned the offer down. LIFE has assigned three staffers to stay with the seven astronauts during most of their rigorous conditioning period...
...Munsey, the Paris Herald was tossed into the deal. To Munsey it was an unexpected windfall; the war, with its tide of Yanks, had swollen circulation to 400,000 and brought untabulated prosperity. Munsey found a cool $1,000,000 cash in the Paris Herald's bank account. But the prosperity was short-lived. Munsey pared the Paris budget to the marrow, handed the paper over as a dubious dividend when he sold the New York Herald in 1924 to Ogden Reid's New York Tribune...
...pennant form alone cannot account for baseball's new life. This is the year that fans scanning box scores and studying statistics are suddenly realizing that grand old names are nearly all gone, have gradually been replaced by a whole set of new faces. This is the year Ted Williams (.239) is 40, and seems ready to quit. This is the year Stan Musial (.260) is 38, and riding the bench. A new generation of stars is coming of age. Significantly...